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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] Enable Drivers for Intel MIC X100 Coprocessors.
Hello Sudeep Dutt,

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:46:08PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 08:31:31PM -0700, Sudeep Dutt wrote:
> > An Intel MIC X100 device is a PCIe form factor add-in coprocessor
> > card based on the Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture
> > that runs a Linux OS. It is a PCIe endpoint in a platform and therefore
> > implements the three required standard address spaces i.e. configuration,
> > memory and I/O. The host OS loads a device driver as is typical for
> > PCIe devices. The card itself runs a bootstrap after reset that
> > transfers control to the card OS downloaded from the host driver.
> > The card OS as shipped by Intel is a Linux kernel with modifications
> > for the X100 devices.
> >
> > Since it is a PCIe card, it does not have the ability to host hardware
> > devices for networking, storage and console. We provide these devices
> > on X100 coprocessors thus enabling a self-bootable equivalent environment
> > for applications. A key benefit of our solution is that it leverages
> > the standard virtio framework for network, disk and console devices,
> > though in our case the virtio framework is used across a PCIe bus.
> >
> > Here is a block diagram of the various components described above. The
> > virtio backends are situated on the host rather than the card given better
> > single threaded performance for the host compared to MIC and the ability of
> > the host to initiate DMA's to/from the card using the MIC DMA engine.
> >
> > |
> > +----------+ | +----------+
> > | Card OS | | | Host OS |
> > +----------+ | +----------+
> > |
> > +-------+ +--------+ +------+ | +---------+ +--------+ +--------+
> > | Virtio| |Virtio | |Virtio| | |Virtio | |Virtio | |Virtio |
> > | Net | |Console | |Block | | |Net | |Console | |Block |
> > | Driver| |Driver | |Driver| | |backend | |backend | |backend |
> > +-------+ +--------+ +------+ | +---------+ +--------+ +--------+
> > | | | | | | |
> > | | | |Ring 3| | |
> > | | | |------|------------|---------|-------
> > +-------------------+ |Ring 0+--------------------------+
> > | | | Virtio over PCIe IOCTLs |
> > | | +--------------------------+
> > +--------------+ | |
> > |Intel MIC | | +---------------+
> > |Card Driver | | |Intel MIC |
> > +--------------+ | |Host Driver |
> > | | +---------------+
> > | | |
> > +-------------------------------------------------------------+
> > | |
> > | PCIe Bus |
> > +-------------------------------------------------------------+


Could you send the whole series to virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org next time?


> That's some nice information, why isn't it in one of the patches you
> sent, so that others can read it later on to try to figure out what is
> going on with this codebase?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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--
Asias


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